Korean Flat Photo-to-Illustration Editorial Poster

Prompt by@didicvj7 (opens in a new tab)

Jiangnan water-town photograph paired with a colorful hand-drawn flat illustration
Person beneath colorful Tibetan prayer flags paired with a Korean-style flat illustration
Outdoor reading nook photograph paired with a playful flat editorial illustration

Prompt

Create a separate high-end design poster for each photo I upload. Do not make a multi-image collage; output each photo separately. Use an overall 3:4 vertical composition divided into upper and lower sections with a strict 1:1 height ratio, each occupying 50% of the image.

In the upper half, retain the original photograph's main structure, realistic texture, natural light and shadow, and existing color atmosphere. Apply only subtle premium photographic color grading to evoke an art magazine, independent publication, or exhibition photograph. You may naturally extend the environmental background to fit the composition, but do not stretch, distort, or alter the subject.

In the lower half, extract the photograph's most recognizable subject, silhouette, pose, and narrative relationships, then reconstruct them as a relaxed, awkward Korean-style flat editorial illustration. Preserve the original layout, relationships between objects, and central action, but remove realistic lighting, perspective, and material detail. Simplify the subject into rounded, clean, slightly exaggerated geometric shapes with rough, jittery, partially broken hand-drawn black outlines and solid color fills, keeping the image immediately recognizable without making it overly realistic.

Maintain one clear visual center and use other elements as supporting accents. Create a playful rhythm through differences in scale, offsets, overlaps, subtle cropping, and imperfect symmetry. Support the subject with large areas of bright solid color and negative space. Preserve color blocks on the left, right, or in partially uninterrupted areas as breathing room, avoid cluttered scenes, and make the result resemble a thoughtfully designed children's picture book or independent editorial illustration rather than a cartoonized photograph.

Extract the most vivid and recognizable colors from the photograph above, then convert them into a limited set of high-chroma, high-purity flat color blocks. You may use vivid blue, red, yellow, green, white, and other color relationships with childlike tension, but do not mechanically apply a fixed palette. Create clear regional contrast between the background and subject, avoiding gradients, shadows, muddy grays, complex blends, and plastic textures.

Typography should follow an awkward but strongly design-conscious editorial logic. Derive a short English title from the photograph's main subject, action, emotion, or story, accompanied by a few short phrases, object names, place names, numbers, or playful notes. The main title may use a slightly handwritten, uneven-weight, or tilted typeface, while smaller text remains clear and restrained. Align text along the subject's silhouette, color-block edges, negative-space areas, or structural axes, with subtle rotation, misalignment, segmentation, and interweaving so it feels like part of the illustration rather than typography added afterward.

Overall, combine the visual atmosphere of real photography with awkward flat illustration and lighthearted editorial design—bright, innocent, friendly, and playful.